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Event Description:The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host its tenth annual Whitman Day on April 3, 2013, in honor of the school’s namesake Martin J. Whitman ‘49. Steven L. Kantor ’79 will deliver the keynote address, “An Entrepreneur: Real Estate to American Idol” at 1 p.m. in the Marvin and Helaine Lender Auditorium. Jimmy Kuhn ’70 BS, ’72 MBA, president of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, will moderate.

Kantor is chief executive officer of S2K Partners, an independent merchant banking firm focused on principal investment, advisory and capital markets opportunities with growth-oriented companies in the media, entertainment and leisure sectors. S2K Partners has an existing portfolio of investments including XIX Entertainment, Nuevo Mall, Goldrun and Tequila Avion. Kantor is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, earning his BS in Finance from the Whitman School. He received a J.D. from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1982.

Whitman Day kicks off at 9 a.m. in the Milton Room, located on the 4th floor of the Whitman building, with a panel discussion, “Modern Security Analysis,” moderated by Kim Michalak ‘70 BA, ‘73 MBA, VP at Wells Fargo Advisors, and featuring panelists Martin J. Whitman ‘49, chairman of the board of Third Avenue Management, and Fernando Diz, Whitman Professor of Finance and director of the Ballentine Investment Institute.